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I'd like to see links to the streams of roughly five pro or near-pro gamers.
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LeeSep 12 '10 at 11:13

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Justin.tv has live streaming of all sorts of video games just do a search for Starcraft 2. However, this site is streaming so you wont be able to watch all teams playing each-other. You will just be able to watch the one person you are streaming from.

Two of the most popular North American Starcraft II sportscasters are HuskyStarcraft and HDStarcraft. Their youtube pages are easily discoverable; I would post the url's if I could. They both do a lot of livecasting, and they post the videos in great-looking 1080p on youtube.

As for finding out about the matches live, check out teamliquid's calendar on their homepage. You can also follow HuskyStarcraft and HDStarcraft on twitter. They will tweet about upcoming livecasts. Personally, unless I'm familiar with the players I will just wait for the higher video quality on their youtube channels and potentially avoid the delays and technical difficulties of live streams.

Husky and HD are both pretty entertaining and informative for a beginner, but more advanced players sometimes criticize them for not having (or at least demonstrating) a deep knowledge of the game. For more educational (though potentially less entertaining) commentary, I recommend watching day9 at http://day9tv.blip.tv/. He also does some livecasting, so follow his twitter.

Built into the StarCraft II client? StarCraft II does have the ability to watch games as they're happening, but you can't just watch random pro matches. You have to be invited by the host of the game, to do so.